Jobs · Engineering · New Jersey

AWS DevOps Engineer

Five Rivers IT Inc. · Fair Lawn, NJ · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$90k–$120k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and manage AWS-based Linux infrastructure for scalable application deployments
  • Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable, and fast deployments
  • Manage application releases, deployments, and rollback strategies across environments
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery using Infrastructure as Code
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows
  • Troubleshoot deployment failures, pipeline issues, and production incidents
  • Implement blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies
  • Maintain system reliability, monitoring, and alerting for production services
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and cost of cloud infrastructure
  • Enforce security best practices across infrastructure and deployment pipelines
  • Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and operational procedures
  • Participate in on-call rotation supporting production systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Linux system administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Rocky/CentOS)
  • 3+ years of AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EKS, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch)
  • Strong experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
  • Hands-on experience with application deployments in cloud environments
  • Proficiency in Bash and Python for automation
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)
  • Solid understanding of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls)
  • Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog)
  • Experience implementing deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling updates)
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, infrastructure, and applications

Qualifications

Profile

  • Strong focus on automation, deployment efficiency, and developer enablement
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with frequent releases
  • Collaborative mindset with strong communication across DevOps and engineering teams
  • Ownership-driven with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence

Benefits

  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Vacation time
  • 401k benefit after 1 full year of service

Pay

Compensation for Cloud System Admin will range from $90,000 to $120,000 based on experience, if your experience falls outside required ranges compensation may be based on other open roles.

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